Reif said in his statement, courtesy of VentureBeat, “I want to express very clearly that I and all of us at MIT are extremely saddened by the death of this promising young man who touched the lives of so many. It pains me to think that MIT played any role in a series of events that have ended in tragedy.”

Reif also said that he would appoint MIT professor Hal Abelson to investigate and provide an analysis of MIT’s involvement in the alleged hacking charges that Swartz had been fighting for the last two years. “I have asked that this analysis describe the options MIT had and the decisions MIT made, in order to understand and to learn from the actions MIT took. I will share the report with the MIT community when I receive it.”

For more details on Aaron Swartz’s death and the charges he was facing, go here.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/01/14/mit-president-expresses-condolences-for-the-loss-of-aaron-swartz/feed/0People make room-scanning Kinect robot, order it around with gestureshttp://www.vg247.com/2010/11/18/people-make-room-scanning-kinect-robot-order-it-around-with-gestures/
http://www.vg247.com/2010/11/18/people-make-room-scanning-kinect-robot-order-it-around-with-gestures/#commentsThu, 18 Nov 2010 09:27:40 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=130130

Short version: some MIT people took Kinect, strapped it to an iRobot Create along with a range-finding sensor, a netbook board and some other crap, and let it wander around rooms scanning everything in 3D. It’s pretty mental.

And that’s not all. Later on in the video below, one of the team behind K-Bot directs it around by pointing, in the same way you’d play a Kinect game.